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T.i., Police in detention TI and his wife in California after allegedly found in possession of a controlled substance.

The couple was arrested Wednesday night during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, according to a police report.

During the stop, police said, he smelled an odor of marijuana coming from his car.

Detention is not the first for the rapper, whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris.

In 2008, he was sentenced on charges of illegal possession of firearms as a convicted felon.

The charges stemmed from an arrest by federal agents last year, while TI was going to buy three machine guns in the parking lot of a supermarket in Atlanta, Georgia.

T.I. was released after serving nine months in prison and three months in a halfway house.

“Well, I’m waiting to put bad things behind me and look to the future and, you know, just move on and evolve – continue to evolve,” he told CNN’s Larry King this year. TI and his wife, Tameka Dianne Cottle, were held and 10,000 bail.